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Comptroller General
of the United States
Washington, D.C. 20548
Decision




Matter of: SEAIR Transport Services, Inc.

File:       B-274436

Date:        December 12, 1996

Ronald H. Uscher, Esq., Bastianelli, Brown, Touhey & Kelley, for the protester.
Rachel A. Sens, Esq., and G. Matthew Koehl, Esq., Seyfarth, Shaw, Fairweather &
Geraldson, for Eagle Aviation Services & Technology, an intervenor.
Marian E. Sullivan, Esq., Michael Farr, Esq., and John Lariccia, Esq., Department of
the Air Force, for the agency.
Christina Sklarew, Esq., and Michael R. Golden, Esq., Office of the General Counsel,
GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST

1. Protest based on disagreement with agency's evaluation of certain features in the
protester's proposal, alleging that credit should have been given under one
evaluation criterion rather than another, is denied where the record shows that the
agency evaluated in accordance with the criteria announced in the solicitation, and
the record reasonably supports the evaluators' conclusions.

2. Protest against agency's performance risk assessment of awardee's proposal is
denied where the agency's evaluation and conclusions reached were reasonable and
supported by the record.
DECISION

SEAIR Transport Services, Inc. protests the Department of the Air Force's award of
a contract to Eagle Aviation Services & Technology, Inc. (EAST) under request for
proposals (RFP) No. F34650-96-R-0059 for the performance of fuels operations
services at Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma. SEAIR contends that the Air Force's
evaluation of competing proposals and resulting award decision were flawed in a
number of ways.

We deny the protest.

The RFP was issued as a total small business set-aside, and contemplated the award
of a firm, fixed-price contract for a 1-year base period, plus 4 option years. The
solicitation provided that the source selection would be conducted in accordance
with the Streamlined Source Selection Procedures of Air Force Federal Acquisition
Regulation Supplement Appendix BB. The RFP listed the following specific criteria


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